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For other uses of the name "Big Four", see Big Four (disambiguation).
The Big Four was the name popularly given to the chief entrepreneurs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.[1] However, the four of them preferred to be known as "The Associates".
- Leland Stanford - President
- Collis P. Huntington - Vice President
- Mark Hopkins - Treasurer
- Charles Crocker - Construction supervisor and president of Charles Crocker & Co., a CP subsidiary.
In popular culture
Ambrose Bierce included characters based on the Big Four in his work Black Beetles in Amber as Sootymug (Hopkins), Happy Hunty (Huntington), Cowboy Charley (Crocker) and Leland, The Kid (Stanford).[2] during the civil war
References
- Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000). Nothing Like It in the World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84609-8.
- ^ Yenne, Bill (1985). The History of the Southern Pacific. Bison Books. pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-517-46084X.
- ^ Bierce, Ambrose. "Black Beetles in Amber". http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12977/12977.txt. Retrieved 2006-05-17.
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